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Eleven Glasses on a Trotline: How a Librarian Survived the Grain Elevator

Eleven Glasses on a Trotline: How a Librarian Survived the Grain Elevator

Nineteen degrees, eleven pairs of reading glasses threaded onto a fisherman’s trotline, and a librarian who walked into her backyard and vanished: the first sighting that climbed out of the water turned a small-town disappearance into a puzzle with a scratched word as its hinge. Who could have gathered eleven of Diane Cole’s glasses and arranged them on hooks twelve miles from her house-and why was a grain elevator beam going to be the evidence that matters most?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Diane Cole’s…

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